Finally the world would see my full range of comedy characters - from grouchy librarian to Russian librarian.

Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions... Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

And I can see Russia from my house.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at 'Saturday Night Live,' and that is so cool.

I think if you ask any of us here, we all dreamed of ending up on Saturday Night Live. I remember thinking, 'I'll just keep doing this as long as I can get away with it.'

Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly?

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.

You go through big chunks of time where you're just thinking, 'this is impossible - oh,this is impossible'. And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.

I had my hair in a ponytail and looked my trademark exhausted.

Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.

I was smiling yesterday, I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.

Happiness is very simple. To be happy, think happiness.

If you are only what you are, You at least have a chance Not to outsmart, But be on a par with yourself And that is worth trying.

It was a practical trip, straight across the country. No pit stops at canned meat museums, no national parks. Just a whole lot of Wynebraskowa.

Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire.

Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.

I have more eating memories than cooking memories and many memories of being in the kitchen - I was always attracted to the kitchen - but nobody ever wanted me to touch anything.

I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

Small business, right down to the individual can beat big, bureaucratic companies ten times out of ten.